FRUIT-TREES. 151: 



CHAP. L; 



Pruning and Nailing of Cherries againfl 

 Walls. 



THE feafons for pruning and nail- 

 ing of ftone-fruit, are December and 

 January, or the beginning of February. 

 Cherries of different kinds require different 

 ways of pruning and nailing, by reafon 

 they bear their fruit upon wood of diffe- 

 rent ages; the morella and baremdam 

 bear mofl of their befl fruit upon the ex- 

 tremities of the lafl year's flioots, and 

 fhould therefore be cut and nailed every 

 year fo as to procure a fucceffion of them: 

 the rules for that purpofe are given In pru- 

 ning of peaches ; but the bearers of thefe 

 need not be nailed to the walls as thofe of 

 peaches are, tho* the ftems and horizontals 

 mufV, to prevent the winds from breaking 

 them. 



The little May cherry is not much un- 

 like the former as to its nature of bearing ; 

 but the fmall bearers of this fhould be 

 L 4 nailed 



